Women in Neo-Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, and the Mainline Churches in Contemporary Nigeria

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Feminist Theology Pub Date : 2022-08-27 DOI:10.1177/09667350221112875

Adolphus Ekedimma Amaefule

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Abstract

This paper looks, in the first place, at gender issues in Pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria. This is especially as captured by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in her novel, Americanah. It is found that women in Nigerian Pentecostalism are more than the men in number and participate more actively both in church activities and in spiritual efforts at home. However, it is mostly the men who are the pastors and leaders of the Nigerian Pentecostal churches, even if at home, by what is sometimes called ‘domestication’ of the same men, the women are empowered in some ways. The paper then considers what their place has in common with the place of women in the Roman Catholic Church in contemporary Nigeria. The paper adds to the existing literature on the place and role of women in both Pentecostalism and Catholicism in contemporary Nigeria.

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尼日利亚新五旬节派教会中的妇女:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie的美国人，以及当代尼日利亚的主流教会

本文首先关注尼日利亚五旬节派基督教中的性别问题。这一点在尼日利亚作家奇曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪奇的小说《美国人》中体现得尤为明显。研究发现，尼日利亚五旬节派的女性人数多于男性，并且更积极地参与教会活动和家庭的精神努力。然而，尼日利亚五旬节派教会的牧师和领袖大多是男性，即使在家里，有时被称为“驯化”的男性，女性在某些方面也被赋予了权力。然后，论文考虑了她们的地位与当代尼日利亚罗马天主教会中妇女的地位有什么共同之处。这篇论文补充了现有的关于妇女在当代尼日利亚五旬节派和天主教中的地位和作用的文献。

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